Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four men cooped up in a single cell pass the time. They call their quaint little game The Torture of Joan of Arc, and it is a symptom of their terrible sense of guilt, which consumes them as the flames consume the roach. A preoccupation with guilt is nothing new for modern French novelists, but Jean Cau. 37, examines the meaning of guilt more exhaustively than even Camus or Sartre-though not always with their clarity. A controversial journalist as well as a novelist and playwright, Cau won the 1961 Prix Goncourt for The Mercy...
When man gives up the struggle for self, he is on the road to giving up reason, freedom and then sanity. What is frightening and "rotten" for Fromm is not primarily the characteristics of middle, upper or lower classes but the general symptom of avoiding the pain of employing reason-the ease with which we turn the Kremlin into a menagerie of monsters devoid of understandable, recognizable human motivations and the West into the faultless frame of reference by which all else is judged...
...striking symptom of the much-heralded revival of student interest in social and philosophical problems has been the proliferation of student-edited magazines. In scope they have ranged from purely campus publications, such as Comment, to nationally-distributed efforts such as New University Thought. Their contents have ranged from attempts to influence intraparty politics (Advance), to ideological disquisitions (The Conservative), to high academicism (Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences), to literary works and essays more or less focussed around a religious motif (The Current, Mosaic...
...attention, suffer at worst from a "wandering womb." Freud doubts the diagnosis, suggests that hysteria proves the existence of unconscious thoughts. Most of his colleagues laugh in his face, but Dr. Josef Breuer (Larry Parks) describes a hysteric named Cecily (Susannah York) who relieved a symptom simply by talking about what caused it. Freud takes over the case. And so begins a vastly exciting drama of detection, in which the audience simultaneously sees a lurid mystery unfold and a momentous theory develop. Following his patient's lead, Freud successively discovers the therapeutic methods of catharsis, free association and dream...
...results just summarized report factual evidence--subject's test reports or behavioral events, suicide or hospitalization. There are, of course, many papers describing lurid symptoms inferred by psychiatrists observing consciousness-expanding drug experiences. The psychiatric vocabulary is limited, ominous, and pathological. Gloomy diagnostic pronouncements by psychiatrists are such a routine symptom of our culture that we are prepared for that utopian mental health survey finding that one-third of us are psychotic, one-third neurotic and one-third cured or in treatment. But, when we ask subjects to describe their own reaction or when we count the objective behavioral events...